Paris and the spirit of 1919 [electronic resource] : consumer struggles, transnationalism and revolution / Tyler Stovall.

9781139377379
113937737X
9781139380232 (electronic bk.)
1139380230 (electronic bk.)
1139086278 (electronic bk.)
9781139086271 (electronic bk.)
9781107018013
1107018013

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

English

1 online resource (xii, 342 p.) : ill.

9786613633712

HD8440.P2 S76 2012eb

944.3610815 944/.3610815

"This transnational history of Paris in 1919 explores the global implications of the revolutionary crisis of French society at the end of World War I. As the site of the Peace Conference Paris was a victorious capital and a city at the centre of the world, and Tyler Stovall explores these intersections of globalisation and local revolution. The book takes as its central point the eruption of political activism in 1919, using the events of that year to illustrate broader tensions in working class, race and gender politics in Parisian, French, and ultimately global society which fuelled debates about colonial subjects and the empire. Viewing consumerism and consumer politics as key both to the revolutionary crisis and to new ideas about working class identity, and arguing against the idea that consumerism depoliticised working people, this history of local labor movements is a study in the making of the modern world"-- Provided by publisher.

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New studies in European history.

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